Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140112:15:03:00
Sonia sotomayor's confirmation hearing. >> i fear that this empathy standard is another step down the road to a liberal, activist, results-oriented, relativistic world where laws lose their fixed mean, unelected judges set policy, americans are seen as members of separate groups rather than as simply as americans. >> and the outrage, that particular outrage, it conflated empathy with sympathy. we can agree that judges should not rely on gut feelings or the tugging of heartstrings. that's not what empathy is. empathy is able to see going into a crumbling, ill-equipped school while the white sch...